Compassion : the culture and politics of an emotion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Essays from the English Institute
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=115387 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant
- Compasion / Marjorie Garber
- Much of madness and more of sin: compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler
- Calculating compassion / Kathleen Woodward
- Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz
- Moving pictures: George Eliot and melodrama / Carolyn Williams
- Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell
- Compassion's compulsion / Lee Edelman
- Cosmetic surgeons of the social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the limits of sympathy on The island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad
- Suffering and thinking: the scandal of tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.